Review Details

Falstaff Motorcycle Jacket

Product Review (submitted on August 30, 2012):

After a 22 year break from Continental touring,my wife boldly agreed to do pillion duty on the V strom down to Southern Spain.We knew it would be hot but not the record busting 116F that we experienced on the run into Cordoba.The Falstaff jacket allowed enough air through when moving to keep one just about cool enough but obviously one began to boil once stopped. Strange looks from T shirt and short clad local riders was hardly suprising but I did not experience clamminess and the cotton liner is less sticky than skin on goretex.The (slightly baggy) liner probably did impede air flow up the sleeves a bit compared to the other Darien jackets but on balance I would say cotton is always more comfortable than goretex when wearing a short T shirt at those temps.
Didn't get a chance to test waterproofedness and the ''just in case'PVC overcoat stayed at the bottom of the pannier for all the trip.